Foreman 1.5.0 released!
Thanks to our many contributors and testers during the Foreman 1.5 development cycle, as with their help we released Foreman 1.5.0 in early May.
The full set of release notes are in the Foreman 1.5 manual:
An update release (1.5.1) is planned shortly as a follow-up for some bugs found in the release.
Recent articles
Introduction to Foreman
Felix Massem has written an instructional series of articles for codecentric introducing Foreman and showing how they carry out automated provisioning with Foreman and Puppet.
- “The Foreman” – A complete lifecycle management tool
- “The Foreman” – Automatic installation of “The Foreman” with Puppet
Systemmanagement mit Puppet und Foreman (German)
Mattias Giese presented at Linux-Tage in March on the subject of Foreman and integrating it with other systems management projects such as Puppet, Spacewalk, Icinga and PuppetDB. Audio and slides available in German.
Also linked below is a published paper from Mattias on the subject of easy system administration with Foreman and Puppet.
- Systemmanagement mit Puppet und Foreman
- Komfortable Systemverwaltung mit Foreman und Puppet (paywall)
OpenNebula integration
Achim Ledermüller and Sebastian Saemann from NETWAYS have released an early version of foreman-one, a new plugin providing OpenNebula compute resource integration for Foreman.
Currently this is pending on inclusion of a patch for OpenNebula in Fog, the cloud library that Foreman uses to work with compute resources. Enthusiastic users can run foreman-one with this patch in a development environment. We’ll provide updates as soon as this is more generally consumable.
Read more in Sebastian’s article on OpenNebula.org:
- OpenNebula and Foreman integration (English)
- Foreman, Fog und OpenNebula (German)
Recent videos
While we’ve mostly been consumed by the 1.5 release, the past few weeks added some new features to show off in the regular sprint demo.
This includes changes to the admin account and installer CLI support, improved Chef support (linking hosts to Chef proxies) and a new drag-and-drop dashboard page for plugins to extend.
The “staypuft” plugin project is designed to extend Foreman to install hosts running OpenStack services. They’ve released a video showing the end to end process (note, no audio). Packages for the adventurous are available in the nightly repositories, starting with foreman-installer-staypuft.